Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...IMMEDIATELY began working on a script. I figured everyone loves science fiction, so I set the plot in the future, 10 years after a peaceful takeover of the Soviet Union by an American--i.e., me. As I wrote, churning out page after page of dialogue, I was surprised by my own inventiveness. The plot was so unique and so clever that I was forced to surmise the world had never seen its like before...
...Once the script was finished I had to figure out how to get it produced and aired. When I started making the rounds I learned that the Soviet government controls all broadcasts and that the only cable in Russia is the stuff they tie around their houses to keep the walls from falling down. No one was very interested in seeing my program...
DESPONDENT, I returned to the United States. Ambitions crushed, with no money and no prospects for the future, I was forced to spend the night behind the dumpster at the Store 24 While I was asleep some hoodlums--no doubt scrounging for concepts for ABC--stole my script for Rusha...
...sordid tale does not end there. Several weeks later, while watching TV at the home of a female admirer, I was shocked to see my script performed virtually word for word. Only the vaguest attempt had been made to disguise its true source: the setting had been changed from the Soviet Union to the United States, the admiring allusions to myself had been taken out, and the title had been changed, unimaginatively, from Rusha to Amerika...
Those with personalities just this side of the grave will cough, teeter, then collapse at the indignities Sellars has wrought upon the story. But all of Handel's operas are dramatic dogs anyway--there is nothing a director could do to the script to make the spectacle any less unbelievable. The juxtaposition of Handel's mostly sunny score and modern theatrical hijinks is potentially as worthy as any other approach...